The Artful Economist A New Look at Cultural Economics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rizzo, Ilde (Editor), Towse, Ruth (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Cultural heritage.; Industrial management.; Economic theory.; Economic policy.; Culture - Economic aspects.; Economics.; Cultural Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Economic Policy.; Cultural Heritage.; Media Management.

This book reassesses central topics in cultural economics: Public finance and public choice theory as the basis for decision-making in cultural and media policy, the role of welfare economics in cultural policy, the economics of creative industries, the application of empirical testing to the perfor...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Individual Choice-Public Choice Perspective and Cultural Economics
• Welfare Economics and Public Policy: A Re-examination
• Public Choice, Economics of Institutions and the Italian School of Public Finance
• Political Economy of Broadcasting: the Legacy of the Peacock Report on Financing the BBC
• The Public Spending for Culture in the Face of Decentralization Processes and Economic Recession: the Case of Italy
• Performance Rights in Music: Some Perspectives from Economics, Law and History
• Copyright and Music Publishing in the UK
• The Composer in the Market Place Revisited: the Economics of Music Composition Today
• Market Options and Public Action for Opera
• Towards More Innovative Museums
• Technological Perspectives for Cultural Heritage
• Archaeological Cultural Heritage: A Consideration of Loss by Smuggling, Conflict or War
• Theory and practice of cultural heritage policy
• On Judging Art and Wine
• Afterword.